St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-24

AT the meeting of the Central LABOR Union
in New York, the committee appointed 70
adjust the differences between the foulloly-
men and iron molders reported thaC 'ney
could effect no settlement. Inc lhetal
workers moved to suspend the molders'
which caused great discord. 1t took TWO
hours to reach vote on the question, out a'
the end of that time the molders were sus-
pended, the vote standing "a to TO- Inc
minority claimed false count, and again
there was rumpus Before this was settled
1t was time to adjourn.
The executive committee of the Furniture
Flnishers' and Painters Association IN Dos
ton have decided to call the men out OF al
shops where the employers will not concede
nine hours full days work.
Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, has been
opened after the summer vacation. A mem
Der of the church committee said no action
had yet been taken regarding the selection OF
Mr.. Beecher's successor. He doubted II the
position would be offered to DR.. Parker, OF
London, or if he would accept it. Dr.
Parker will occupy the pulpit the first Sun
day in October.
The report of Colonel Switzler, chief of the
bureau of statistics, at Washington, shows
the following totals of gold and silver move
ments for the twelve months ended July 81,
1887: Imports of gold coin and bullion,
S44 50G, Sol; silver coin and bullion, SIT, 189,-
538. Exports foreign and domestic gold com
and bullion, S9,021 ,652; exports foreign and
domestic silver coin and bullion, S26 058, l96.
This shows an excess of imports over ex-
ports of gold and silver bullion and coin,
foreign and domestic, of $26, ,991.
While the Medical Congress was in session
in Washington, guides, who congregate
around the Washington monument did
thriving business and made money selling
pieces of marble at fifty cents each to
visitors, with the representation that the
chips were pieces of the capstone. The
local physicians made complaint to the
monument commission, and an attempt Will
now be made to prosecute the sellers OF the
marble chips for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Samuel Igal, eighteen years of age, re-
Gently an employee of Westcott's Express,
has been arrested in New York for securing
baggage at the Grand Central depot by
means of checks taken from Westcotts s.
Several pieces Of baggage are awaiting
owners.
DR.. Borcheim, physician with an extern
sive practice in Atlanta, Ca, has commltteo
suicide. The cocaine habit is supposed to
have been the cause.
J.C. Harris was shot twice in the head at
Cambridge, 0. With two bullets in his
brain he staggered to the depot and boarded
a train for Caldwell, several miles south,
! which place he reached in an exhausted con-
dition. Harris says young woman named
Louise Morrison did the shooting, because he
would not marry her.
Benjamin Daily was fatally stabbed on
East Water street, in Milwaukee, Wis. Frank
Edwards and John Lufky were arrested, the
former being charged with doing the stab
bing.
+ Mrs. Henry Sell, while riding in wagon
to funeral at Northtield, near Chicago was
shot dead by stray bullet from one OF
party of picnickers firing at mark. The
! blunderer who fired the shot was Frank
! Rinkerberger, but the whole party-slx
men and four women-were arrested.
A dispatch from Great Darlington, Mass,
saws William H. Oles and George Pinney
| were SOlLB III III Aio1ieNiSJ 49, 'S
shotgun from their wagon both barrels
were discharged, blowing off Oles' head and
Pinney right arm.
A petition has been filed with the clerk OF
the Common Pleas Court at Hamilton, o.,
| asking that receiver be appointed to take
charge of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railroad Company George K. Duck
worth, the plaintiff AYERS that from and after
/ June 20, 1886, all the earnings of the road
were sent to H. S. Ives & Co., of New York;
that H. s. Ives and George H. Stayner used
said proceeds and said moneys coming into
| their hands as bankers of said road for their
own purposes entirely, and not for the pur-
poses of the road, and that they sold said
| S25OO.OOO of bonds and over 81, 500, 600 of
said preferred stock authorized to be issued
as aforesaid and used said proceeds entirely
for their own purposes and not for the pur
poses of the road. The plaintiff further
alleges that the salary Of c. C. Waite, second
vice president, in June, 1886, was $4,000 per
annum, that during the succeeding year it
was increased several times until he was re-
ceiving the sum of $4,000 per annum as
salary for performing the same services for
which the year before he received Sc 900;
that the directors have been guilty of fraud
ulent management; that the corporation is
vency, and that it is necessary that receiver
be appointed to preserve the property.